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My mother was murdered by what I call corporate and political homicide i.e. FOR PROFIT! she died from a rare phenotype of CJD i.e. the Heidenhain Variant of Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease i.e. sporadic, simply meaning from unknown route and source. I have simply been trying to validate her death DOD 12/14/97 with the truth. There is a route, and there is a source. There are many here in the USA. WE must make CJD and all human TSE, of all age groups 'reportable' Nationally and Internationally, with a written CJD questionnaire asking real questions pertaining to route and source of this agent. Friendly fire has the potential to play a huge role in the continued transmission of this agent via the medical, dental, and surgical arena. We must not flounder any longer. ...TSS

Thursday, December 20, 2012

OIE GROUP RECOMMENDS THAT SCRAPE PRION DISEASE BE DELISTED AND SAME OLD BSe WITH BOVINE MAD COW DISEASE

A_Annex_VII_A_AHG_Report_Meeting_Final

Scrapie – The disease does not show significant morbidity (2-30%
within-flock morbidity) or mortality and is not zoonotic. However, the Group
noted the difficulty in evaluating the level of morbidity for diseases with a
long incubation period such as scrapie. The Group recommended that the disease
be delisted.

PROCEDURES FOR SELF DECLARATION AND FOR OFFICIAL RECOGNITION BY the
OIE

Article 1.6.1.

[No change]

Article 1.6.2.

[No change]

Article 1.6.3.

Questionnaire on bovine spongiform encephalopathy

SNIP...

Article 11.5.29.

Conclusions of the risk assessment

The overall risk of BSE in the cattle population of a country or zone is
proportional to the level of known or potential exposure to BSE infectivity and
the potential for recycling and amplification of the infectivity through
livestock feeding practices. For the risk assessment to conclude that the cattle
population of a country or zone is free from BSE risk, it should have
demonstrated that appropriate measures have been taken to manage any risks
identified.

BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY YOUR LOCAL CATTLE DEALERS AND LOBBYIEST
EVERYWHERE...

IN A NUT SHELL ;

(Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 23 May 2006)

11. Information published by the OIE is derived from appropriate
declarations made by the official Veterinary Services of Member Countries. The
OIE is not responsible for inaccurate publication of country disease status
based on inaccurate information or changes in epidemiological status or other
significant events that were not promptly reported to the Central Bureau,

i pulled this comment off another board about the OIE and all it's lobby
groups...tss

Having been to their offices in Paris and talked personally with the Head
of the Animal Test Section, you would choke if you knew how many lobby groups
attend that office daily. There is a steady stream of paid lobby groups that
have one goal in life and that is to sway the Section Heads of each department
within the OIE to suit the needs of different juristictions around the world,
which curiously enough, also includes the USA and Canada. Anyone can go there
and chat with them - providing they can privide valid cause to be let in. To say
that the only goal of the OIE is animal health is actually only part of their
function. They are more than that and my discussions with Dr. Diaz there has
showed me that. But to blindly make a statement regarding what they do when you
have no idea what they actually do is like eating the skin of the orange and not
knowing what is actually under. Interstingly you state that the US Government
applied pressure (to the OIE) I assume and that is a great example of the lobby
groups doing their job. So, at the end of the day, one can safely assume that it
is the pressure applied by certain influential lobby groups that will determine
a likely aoutcome to an apparent OIE directive. Man alive, isn't it great to
live in a democracy wherein the people get to make the choices and not just some
"other" interested party or group - say like........Cargyll or Tyson for
example?

So, one last question, question?

Who wags the tail of that dog?? And for what reason other than one that is
purely associated with trade and international agreements and greed?

BSE GBR RISK ASSESSMENTS UPDATE NOVEMBER 23, 2009 COMMISSION OF THE
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND O.I.E. COMMISSION DECISION of 11 November 2009 amending
the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC as regards the BSE status of Chile, Colombia
and Japan (notified under document C(2009) 8590)

Reasons for the New Regulation Order No. 23 (as well as amending Order No.
149) of the State Committee for Veterinary Medicine name BSE as the reason for
new import requirement. The legal title for Order No. 23 is "On Urgent Measures
Aimed at Prevention and Elimination of BSE and Other Prion Infections in
Cattle”. Neither Order explains how the threat of introduction of BSE can be
addressed through the inspection of producers of all products of animal origin
including fish, dairy products, poultry and pork. It is not clear what other
concerns are addressed through the proposed inspections. Formal Notification of
Trading Partners On August 3rd, Ukraine's Notification and Enquiry Point issued
a legal Notification G/SPS/N/UKR/3/Rev.1 found on the Official WTO Website
(Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures)

This is provided by the statistically significant increase in the incidence
of sheep scrape from 1985, as determined from analyses of the submissions made
to VI Centres, and from individual case and flock incident studies. ........

Kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of humans and scrapie disease of sheep
and goats were transmitted to squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) that were
exposed to the infectious agents only by their nonforced consumption of known
infectious tissues. The asymptomatic incubation period in the one monkey exposed
to the virus of kuru was 36 months; that in the two monkeys exposed to the virus
of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was 23 and 27 months, respectively; and that in the
two monkeys exposed to the virus of scrapie was 25 and 32 months, respectively.
Careful physical examination of the buccal cavities of all of the monkeys failed
to reveal signs or oral lesions. One additional monkey similarly exposed to kuru
has remained asymptomatic during the 39 months that it has been under
observation.

snip...

The successful transmission of kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and scrapie
by natural feeding to squirrel monkeys that we have reported provides further
grounds for concern that scrapie-infected meat may occasionally give rise in
humans to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTE ON SCRAPIE

Office Note CHAIRMAN: PROFESSOR PETER WILDY

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A The Present Position with respect to Scrapie A] The Problem

Scrapie is a natural disease of sheep and goats. It is a slow and
inexorably progressive degenerative disorder of the nervous system and it ia
fatal. It is enzootic in the United Kingdom but not in all countries.

The field problem has been reviewed by a MAFF working group (ARC 35/77). It
is difficult to assess the incidence in Britain for a variety of reasons but the
disease causes serious financial loss; it is estimated that it cost Swaledale
breeders alone $l.7 M during the five years 1971-1975. A further inestimable
loss arises from the closure of certain export markets, in particular those of
the United States, to British sheep.

It is clear that scrapie in sheep is important commercially and for that
reason alone effective measures to control it should be devised as quickly as
possible.

Recently the question has again been brought up as to whether scrapie is
transmissible to man. This has followed reports that the disease has been
transmitted to primates. One particularly lurid speculation (Gajdusek 1977)
conjectures that the agents of scrapie, kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and
transmissible encephalopathy of mink are varieties of a single "virus". The U.S.
Department of Agriculture concluded that it could "no longer justify or permit
scrapie-blood line and scrapie-exposed sheep and goats to be processed for human
or animal food at slaughter or rendering plants" (ARC 84/77)" The problem is
emphasised by the finding that some strains of scrapie produce lesions identical
to the once which characterise the human dementias"

Whether true or not. the hypothesis that these agents might be
transmissible to man raises two considerations. First, the safety of laboratory
personnel requires prompt attention. Second, action such as the "scorched meat"
policy of USDA makes the solution of the acrapie problem urgent if the sheep
industry is not to suffer grievously.

Transmission of Scrapie to the Cynomolgus Monkey (Macaca
fascicularis)

C. J. GIBBS jun. & D. C. GAJDUSEK

National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

SCRAPIE has been transmitted to the cynomolgus, or crab-eating, monkey
(Macaca fascicularis) with an incubation period of more than 5 yr from the time
of intracerebral inoculation of scrapie-infected mouse brain. The animal
developed a chronic central nervous system degeneration, with ataxia, tremor and
myoclonus with associated severe scrapie-like pathology of intensive astroglial
hypertrophy and proliferation, neuronal vacuolation and status spongiosus of
grey matter. The strain of scrapie virus used was the eighth passage in Swiss
mice (NIH) of a Compton strain of scrapie obtained as ninth intracerebral
passage of the agent in goat brain, from Dr R. L. Chandler (ARC, Compton,
Berkshire).

IT'S as obvious as day and night, either Larry, Curley, and Mo have been at
the helm of the USDA/APHIS/FSIS/FDA/CDC/NIH et al for many many years, or the
incompetence of these agencies are so inept, either through ignorance and or
just too overweight with industry reps., they then should be all done away with
and a single agency brought forth, and if not, how will you correct this ongoing
problem ?

5. A positive result from a chimpanzee challenged severly would likely
create alarm in some circles even if the result could not be interpreted for
man. I have a view that all these agents could be transmitted provided a large
enough dose by appropriate routes was given and the animals kept long enough.
Until the mechanisms of the species barrier are more clearly understood it might
be best to retain that hypothesis.

EFSA and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
recently delivered a scientific opinion on any possible epidemiological or
molecular association between TSEs in animals and humans (EFSA Panel on
Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ) and ECDC, 2011). This opinion confirmed Classical
BSE prions as the only TSE agents demonstrated to be zoonotic so far but the
possibility that a small proportion of human cases so far classified as
"sporadic" CJD are of zoonotic origin could not be excluded. Moreover,
transmission experiments to non-human primates suggest that some TSE agents in
addition to Classical BSE prions in cattle (namely L-type Atypical BSE,
Classical BSE in sheep, transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) and chronic
wasting disease (CWD) agents) might have zoonotic potential.

The TSE road map defining the evolution of European policy for protection
against prion diseases is based on a certain numbers of hypotheses some of which
may turn out to be erroneous. In particular, a form of BSE (called atypical
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), recently identified by systematic testing in
aged cattle without clinical signs, may be the origin of classical BSE and thus
potentially constitute a reservoir, which may be impossible to eradicate if a
sporadic origin is confirmed.

***Also, a link is suspected between atypical BSE and some apparently
sporadic cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. These atypical BSE cases
constitute an unforeseen first threat that could sharply modify the European
approach to prion diseases.

IT is of my opinion, that the OIE and the USDA et al, are the soul reason,
and responsible parties, for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy TSE prion
diseases, including typical and atypical BSE, typical and atypical Scrapie, and
all strains of CWD, and human TSE there from, spreading around the globe.

I have lost all confidence of this organization as a regulatory authority
on animal disease, and consider it nothing more than a National Trading
Brokerage for all strains of animal TSE, just to satisfy there commodity. AS i
said before, OIE should hang up there jock strap now, since it appears they will
buckle every time a country makes some political hay about trade protocol,
commodities and futures. IF they are not going to be science based, they should
do everyone a favor and dissolve there organization.

JUST because of low documented human body count with nvCJD and the long
incubation periods, the lack of sound science being replaced by political and
corporate science in relations with the fact that science has now linked some
sporadic CJD with atypical BSE and atypical scrapie, and the very real threat of
CWD being zoonosis, I believed the O.I.E. has failed terribly and again, I call
for this organization to be dissolved. ...